| 词条 | Timberlake Wertenbaker |
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|image = | name = Timberlake Wertenbaker | pseudonym = | birth_date = | birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | birth_name = | occupation = Playwright, Librettist | nationality = United Kingdom | period = | genre = Modern theatre, original works and translations | subject = | movement = | influences = | influenced = | spouse = | children = | relatives = | signature = | website = }}Timberlake Wertenbaker (born 1951)[1] is a British-based playwright, screenplay writer, and translator who has written plays for the Royal Court, the Royal Shakespeare Company and others. She has been described as "the doyenne of political theater of the 1980s and 1990s".[2][3] Wertenbaker's most well-known work is Our Country's Good, which won six Tony nominations for its 1991 production. She has a propensity to write about political thinking and conflict, especially where there is a settled orthodoxy: "Then the rebel in me goes berserk, and I start pawing at it. I like the area where the questions are, and the ambiguities of political life, rather than the certainties."[2] BackgroundWertenbaker was born in New York City to Charles Wertenbaker, a journalist, and Lael Wertenbaker, a writer.[5][4] Much of her childhood was spent in the Basque Country in the small fishing village of Ciboure.[5] She has been described as possessing a "characteristic reticence"; she has indicated that this may spring partly from her upbringing in Ciboure: "One thing they would tell you as a child was never to say anything because you might be betraying someone who had done something politically or whatever. So I was inculcated with this idea of emotional privacy."[6] CareerWertenbaker was the resident writer for Shared Experience in 1983 and the Royal Court Theatre from 1984 to 1985. She was on the Executive Council of the English Stage Company from 1992 to 1997 and on the Executive Committee of PEN from 1998 to 2001.[7] She served as the Royden B. Davis professor of Theatre at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., for 2005-06. She was the Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Freud Museum in 2011. She was also the artistic director of New Perspective Theatre Company. Currently, Wertenbaker is the Chair in Playwriting at the University of East Anglia. In addition, she is artistic adviser to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and on the council of the Royal Society of Literature. ThemesCentral topics in her work are the efforts of individuals, particularly women: pursuing quests, seeking change, breaking boundaries, and constructing or challenging gender roles. A central technique is the revisioning of actual or imaginary lives from the past, sometimes remote in place as well as in time. There is a further recurring theme in her work: displacement. In her plays, characters are often removed from the familiarity of home and are forced to live in new cultures, sometimes defined by national boundaries, other times by cultural and class divisions. From this central theme emerge related themes, including isolation, dispossession, and the problem of forging an identity within a new cultural milieu. In her work, individuals often seem to assume roles, as if identity were a matter of persons performing themselves. Wertenbaker’s work also demonstrates a keen awareness that communication occurs through language that often inadequately expresses experience. Personal lifeShe has a home in north London, where she lives with her husband, the writer John Man. They have one daughter. Honours and awards
Wertenbaker was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006.[8] WorksPlaysShe has written plays for the Royal Court, the Royal Shakespeare Company and other theatres:
Translations and adaptationsHer translations and adaptations include several plays by Marivaux (Shared Experience, Radio 3), Sophocles’ Theban Plays (RSC), Euripides’ Hecuba (ACT, San Francisco), Eduardo de Filippo, Gabriela Preissova’s Jenufa (Arcola), and Racine (Phèdre, Britannicus).
Radio
"Possession" Fifteen part adaptation of A.S. Byatt's novel for Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4
Opera
Screenplays
Compilations
References1. ^Timberlake Wertenbaker at the Orlando Project, Cambridge University Press 2. ^1 [https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/grappling-with-jeffersons-legacy-a-playwright-doesnt-like-nice-people/2018/01/24/0ff4c12e-0081-11e8-8acf-ad2991367d9d_story.html Washington Post, "Grappling with Jefferson’s legacy: ‘A playwright doesn’t like nice people’", January 24, 2018] 3. ^{{cite web| title = Timberlake Wertenbaker| publisher = Faber & Faber| url = http://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/author/timberlake-wertenbaker| accessdate = 11 August 2017| deadurl= yes| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130426032543/http://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/author/timberlake-wertenbaker| archivedate=2013-04-26 }} 4. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/29/arts/lael-wertenbaker-87-author-who-wrote-of-husband-s-death.html New York Times, "Lael Wertenbaker, 87, Author Who Wrote of Husband's Death", 1997] 5. ^1 [https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/apr/30/timberlake-wertenbaker-playwright-renaissance-winter-hill-interview The Guardian, "Timberlake Wertenbaker: ‘I got to feel that nobody wanted me’", April 29, 2017] 6. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2004/jun/30/theatre The Guardian, "It's All So Public", 30 June 2004] 7. ^"Timberlake Wertenbaker", Literature Matters, British Council, 8. ^[https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/timberlake-wertenbaker British Council: Literature, "Timberlake Wertenbaker"] 9. ^The Hecuba, 2001 radio play External links
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